5G Fundamentals

Verizon exec: ‘The network-as-a-service offering includes connectivity, technology and management layers’ At the end of 2020, Verizon Business announced that it will deploy its Network-as-a-Service (NaaS) offering, an all-encompassing network solution, to more than 9,000 Walgreens and Duane Reade retail …

5G and MEC allow healthcare data to be processed at a much higher rate While IoT has become a household term, IoMT or the Internet of Medical Things, isn’t as well known. IoMT represents a subcategory of IoT that encompasses …

In general, FDD is considered better for coverage and TDD better for capacity Mobile operators are looking to carrier aggregation (CA), which allows them to use multiple sub-6 GHz spectrum channels simultaneously, as a method of increasing the bandwidth and …

LitePoint exec: ‘When compared to 4G, 5G attach rates are one to two years ahead’ LitePoint, a wireless device testing company, saw a 10x increase in 5G mobile phone shipments last year, according to the company’s Director of Marketing Adam …

Ericsson’s November Mobility Report predicted 220 million 5G subscriptions globally by the end of 2020 China and the U.S. continue to top the 5G charts, with VIAVI’s The State of 5G Deployments report showing that the countries have 341 and …

Inseego Corp. exec: ‘The demand for 5G is staggering’ Despite the setbacks presented by 2020, 5G adoption managed to not only beat the odds by accelerating during a particularly challenging year, but it is doing so faster than any previous …

In the wake of the record-breaking C Band auction, RCR Wireless News caught up with Heidi Hemmer, VP of Technology at Verizon — which, alone, spent $52.9 billion on the mid-spectrum spectrum — to find out more about the carrier’s …

5G is expected to support transformational change across multiple industries: More efficient factories, smarter transportation, more holistic health and so on. Expectations are high, even if the exact path to such widespread shifts isn’t entirely clear. But the increased digitalization …

The Japanese government assigned the three largest mobile operators in Japan — NTT Docomo, KDDI au and Softbank, as well as new arrival Rakuten Mobile — 5G spectrum in April 2019. In the coming years, the four Japanese carriers are …

According to speed tests, U.K.’s 5G speeds are nearly four times faster than 4G The U.K.’s four largest mobile operators — EE, Vodafone, Three UK and O2 — have launched 5G technologies in the U.K.’s main cities, as well as …

The consumer-facing 5G value proposition today is fairly straightforward: faster speeds, lower latency, better reliability, enhanced security. But, as it stands, 5G isn’t being sold to consumers. Consumers are buying compatible handsets and getting 5G where it’s available. On balance, …

In conversation with Robert Boyanovsky, Vice President of Enterprise Mobility and IoT, AT&T During the recent 5G Transformation Forum, industry experts convened to parse the business and technology strategies that will successfully allow the telecoms sector to sell in to …

Co-creation is key to cracking vertically-tailored 5G solutions; hear from AT&T, Inseego and Vodafone There’s broad consensus among the telco set that the real money to made from 5G will be made by selling solutions into high-value vertical industries. But …

Oskar, nine: ‘1G is like the parents and 5G is like the kids, so kids are faster and smarter’ Towards the end of 2019, Ericsson embarked on the silly and self-prescribed “crazy” task of explaining 5G to young children. Ultimately, …

According to Ookla, Austria has 958 5G deployment locations In July 2020, Austria’s three largest mobile operators reported that the country’s 5G rollout was stalling, due mostly to the high prices associated with mobile masts rentals, as well as a …

Spanish operators have been accelerating 5G deployment plans over the last months and all carriers already offer 5G in the country’s main urban areas as well as in medium-sized cities. In this article, we briefly describe the current state of …